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mr_toadtoday at 1:29 AM1 replyview on HN

There’s a minimum level of energy consumption (and thus heat) that has to be produced by computation, just because of physics. However, modern computers generate billions of times more heat than this minimum level.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landauer's_principle


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RhysUtoday at 1:37 AM

It'd be super fun to take that as an axiom of physics then to see how far upwards one could build from that. Above my skills by far.

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